Momentum For Change Podcast

This podcast takes us to Uruguay, where climate-related flooding is increasingly a problem. During the last decade, flooding has displaced sixty-seven thousand people from their homes in sixty cities across Uruguay. In response to this increased flooding, Uruguay’s National Resettlement Program is helping communities adapt. The Program moves vulnerable families who live in areas at high risk of flooding, resettling them to safer locations. The houses the families are settled into are located in urban areas that have access to public transport and education, and that are connected to the electrical grid. To tell us more, we’re joined by Raquel Lejtreger, Uruguay’s Former Vice Minister of Housing, Land Planning and Environment.